Where is this from????
 

I've tried Google, to no avail.

Is it from some demented novel or short story, or is it part of a comedy routine?

Where is this from????? (yes, it's an additional question mark urgent by now.)

(it came up at work tonight. Someone read an article from The Onion about the King of the Roaches concerned about the bedbug invasion, and this just leapt into my brain, worse that getting stuck on The Chicken Dance for hours and hours. Please, someone help me!)

The Trolley Song may well be the source of the rhythm of the line.

If I could remember the context, I'd be able to get closer. I hesitate to contaminate my ask-the-audience, but I have three strong candidates in mind

Some routine by Lenny Bruce, shortly before he became unfunny, a Harlan Ellison Short Story, or maybe something in one of Woody Allen's books ... didn't he do some demented take-off on Kafka's Metamorphosis? I'm sure it wasn't anything to do with Archy and Mehitabel.

How about this one:

http://drhoz.livejournal.com/146477.html

Found that. Only actual hit when you google the quote. Reassured me that I do remember it correctly, but not from whence it came. The mindworm only bored in more deeply with that.

Let me get that for yo---OH LOOK! A PONY!!!!!

blattidae - scientific name for the cockroach family

blat (couldn't find blatt) - Blat \Blat\, v. t. To utter inconsiderately. [Low] If I have anything on my mind, I have to blat it right out.

blat, blat, blat go the cockroaches.

Yes, I know what it means. I know that blattidae is cockroach. But where's it from? What's the original reference? That's what's making me nuts.

Kafka, maybe?

Edit: oh, just noticed your highlightable section, you thought of that already...

I went and wandered through IMDB... no hits in the quotes section, but humorous movies that contained large roaches include Joe's Apartment and Men In Black...

Or maybe that X-Files episode, "War of the Coprophages."

It's not the final segment of Creepshow, either.

Maybe it was one of your patients?

Nope. I checked the Full Moon Manifestoes. Nada.

Not much help, but here's another mention:

halfway down the comments

http://blogs.chron.com/immigration/a.../post_403.html

oh, and now I found your query on kindleboards. You're Cheating On Us!

Hello, Pot? Kettle? You unashamed two-timer.

I think you'll find I've abandoned my former internet home.......

*sniff* it was good while it lasted

and now on some weird russian google group forum thingy from 10 years ago (second comment).

http://translate.google.com/translat...%26tbs%3Ddsc:1

here, look! i found it

http://www.calacademy.org/blogs/climate/?p=46

Universe 5, a collection of short science fiction stories edited by Terry Carr

Monster, for the win!

*grinning*

(of course I should be cleaning and packing for my trip up north tomorrow....why do I even procrastinate on the good stuff?)

How do I get a job as a bizare/obscure things on the internet finder?


ets: a paid job, I mean

The story is "Mysterious Doings in the Metropolitan Museum by Fritz Leiber.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?57303

Apologies for the anachronistic name-calling. Ex-whore.
Major congrats on the find. Major Procrastinator :)

Maybe now wolf will realise what she's risking and stop this flirtation with the kindle kind? or are we cool with polydwellamy?

COCK!ROACH

You work better under pressure?

I guess. i have one hour left now and still done sweet FA *sigh*

Holy shit, monster! Well done!

I thank you. I'm now home from my ladies night out and still haven't packed. Anyone else got a puzzle that needs solving? I'm not going until 9am..... :lol:

Have you made cold fusion work yet?

of course. cold beer with previous stomach contents

Monster, thank you! Now I can sleep. Well, after I find a copy of the story. I have no idea where my copy of Best of Fritz Lieber has gotten to (I don't think I ever read the Universe anthology). It also had a couple of Fafhrd and Grey Mouser (or however you spell them) tales. I had vague memories of a bug conflict! I shall give full credit when I excitedly reveal this to my cow orkers on Monday.

And yes, I've been seeing other forae. I am an asocial butterfly.

Fritz Leiber "Mysterious Doings in the Metropolitan Museum"

Good call john1968, a little late on the big reveal though.

Welcome to the cellar! Cruise around, see what's going on this year. :)